Jack won the first prize in the computer competition. Two years of hard work and patience _______ in the end.

He was _____ by his grandparents, so his parents seemed to be strangers to him. 

He was in hospital for 6 months. He felt as if he was ______ from the outside world.

I could just see a car in the distance, but I couldn’t _____ what color it was.

What did you ____ me ____? I’m a teacher, not a doctor.

I tried my best, but I couldn’t _____ the driving tests.

He was _____ down for some days after he heard that he didn’t pass the exam.

The law ______ the sales of wine to people under the age of 16.
A. encourages    B allows        C. helps        D. forbids

In almost all the colleges in our country now, college students sometimes earn enough money by ______ of part time job to support themselves.

I _____ many unnecessary words in my article, leaving it much shorter.?